Vegetarian diets and cancer risk: pooled analysis of 1.8 million women and men in nine prospective studies on three continents - PubMed
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- Vegetarian diets may influence cancer risk, as studied in 1.8 million participants across nine cohorts.
- Compared to meat eaters, poultry eaters had a lower risk of prostate cancer.
- Pescatarians showed reduced risks for colorectal, breast, and kidney cancers.
- Vegetarians had lower risks for pancreatic, breast, prostate, kidney cancers, and multiple myeloma but a higher risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus.
- Vegans had a higher risk of colorectal cancer.
- The study suggests vegetarian diets could affect several cancer risks, but generalizability should be considered cautiously.